While police personnel who entered the campus said they were for the 'safety of the students', the protesters alleged two of the students were picked up by police.
Balaji was arrested on June 14 last year by the ED in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged cash-for-jobs scam when he was the transport minister in an earlier AIADMK government.
The Madras high court on Friday set aside an order of the regional passport authority in Chennai impounding the passport of Leena Manimekalai, author, lyricist and film-maker.
'Everybody who is outraged about the film hasn't even seen it yet. It is absolutely disgusting that people should ask for a ban on art, be it books or films. We have a large population of young, educated people who want to explore new things, stay with the times and then there is a vast section of uneducated people who politicians try to exploit. I think that is what is happening here in the name of Tamil pride,' says television journalist Dibang, who makes his acting debut in Madras Cafe.
'We started AgniKul to show that space transportation should be as simple as road transportation.'
University of Madras offers many programmes from the Department of Zoology. "How to Apply" details found inside.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met up with legendary actress Vyjayanthimala in Chennai, and shared pictures of their meeting.
Of these 212 million Indians, 133 million have untreated diabetes. Undiagnosed diabetes has been linked with complications such as diabetic retinopathy which can cause vision loss and blindness.
Justice SM Subramaniam said the higher police officials are expected to maintain not only good conduct, "but their actions must be always in consonance with the constitutional principles."
The Madras high court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to remove at once, all the posters put up by political parties in furtherance of the local body elections, scheduled for February 19, throughout Chennai.
'Madras is a Tamil word while Chennai is Telugu. Without the English, there would have been no Madras. The erection of Fort St George laid the foundations for the growth of the first modern city of India,' Historian JBP More tells Shobha Warrier.
Was this Chennai? Or Singapore? There's an area in Singapore that looked like a suburb of Chennai.
ustice R Mahadevan passed the interim order on a plea moved by the Chennai-based Tamil Nadu Chemists & Druggists Association seeking a direction to authorities concerned to block the links of websites that selling medicines online.
The Madras high court on Monday took strong objections to the violent incidents in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi district on Sunday, and directed the state police chief to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to identify the rioters and take stern action against them.
The last date for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Institute of Distance Education, University of Madras has been extended to November 29.
In two years, the start-up Overqualified Housewives has helped over 6,000 women across India find flexible-job roles across India from salaries ranging between Rs 8,000 to Rs 80,000, making them financially independent.
The Madras Christian College (MCC) Class of 1983 celebrates the Silver Jubilee of its graduation.
Ravindra Jadeja termed his spin partnership with Ravichandran Ashwin as 'Indran-Chandran'.
Chennai is one of the cities where works have been completed for almost 62 per cent of the money lined up -- Rs 599 crore of the Rs 959 crore has been utilised so far. Despite this, there was no respite for the people in the city this time either, with North Chennai being the worst affected.
The bench not only issued notices to the state government and its police authorities, but also stayed the coercive proceedings against Shankar.
The cyclonic depression may have crossed the Tamil Nadu coast on Thursday evening, but the state continues to be battered by heavy rains.
Director Pa Ranjith's Madras is an intense emotional drama that gives you a ringside view of the lives of the underprivileged in North Chennai.
Unfazed by the Supreme Court order, Madras High Court judge Justice C S Karnan has said that he would "order" lodging an FIR under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) against the two Apex court judges who have directed that he be not given any judicial work.
'There was a time when a movie star could win an election just by stepping into politics. That era is over.'
The Madras high court on Wednesday set aside the proceedings of the Tamil Nadu revenue department locking and sealing the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam headquarters in Chennai following the July 11 violence, and directed that the keys of the office be handed over to party chief K Palaniswami.
'How do we truly measure a life? Is it in milestones or the fleeting moments we cherish later?' 'Or perhaps in the anniversaries that come each year, like an old friend?'
The Bharatiya Janata Party vs ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam battle over live telecast of the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration in Tamil Nadu shrines reached the Supreme Court on Monday, with the apex court asking the authorities to act in accordance with the law and not based on any oral instructions.
The observations came from a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala while reserving the verdict on an appeal filed by NGOs -- Just Rights for Children Alliance of Faridabad and New Delhi-based Bachpan Bachao Andolan -- challenging a Madras high court verdict.
In the wake of Fathima Lateef's tragic suicide at IIT-Madras, A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to students and professors to find out if one of India's leading educational institutions has a dark side to it.
As Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket. He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual charming smile: "Take care of yourself."
Around 450 members from IIT-M, besides the other seven IITs in the country, are resorting to the black badge protest. The association said on Wednesday that the present IIT pay-scales were neither commensurate with the required qualifications nor enough to attract fresh talent,even to well established IITs and that the faculty are 'frustrated with the inordinate delay' in implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
Always interesting, DMK politics is going to get even more absorbing in the days to come, predicts Aditi Phadnis.
From a tiny fishing village to a high-tech metropolis with major automobile units, a thriving information technology industry and pride as the cultural capital of the South, it's been a long and eventful journey for Chennai, which turns 371 on Sunday.
Greenpeace contended that the order cancelling its licence was false and violated law.
'With passage of time, Kamal did move away from the humdrum of commercial cinema, using it only as a peg to launch a new concept or new technology, as no other actor/film-maker has done in Indian cinema.' N Sathiya Moorthy assesses the career and politics of movie legend Kamal Haasan on his 70th brthday.
Rahman had received Rs 3,47,77,200 from Libra Mobile during 2010-11 in his individual capacity as an artiste which must have been considered for taxation and this was not considered by the Assessing Officer in the reassessment order.
Wednesday's Vikravandi by-election has become a referendum on the Stalin government, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not even seem to recognise that they too have crossed a red line themselves, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against four police personnel and 32 advocates in a city court and recommended departmental action against 22 policemen in the lawyers-police clash in the Madras High Court complex in February last year.
